Walter Pidgeon

Personal Info

Birthday

September 22, 1897

Day of Death

1984-09-25

(87 years old)

Place of Birth

Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Also Known As

Уолтер Пиджон

Walter Davis Pidgeon

Walter Pidgeon

Biography

Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian actor who lived most of his adult life in the United States. He starred in many motion pictures, including Mrs. Miniver, The Bad and the Beautiful, Forbidden Planet, Advise and Consent and Funny Girl.

Known For

Perry Mason

Dr. Kildare

Rawhide

Daniel Boone

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The F.B.I.

Burke's Law

Checkmate

Filmography

2018
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989
Fritz Lang, drawings for a film
as Captain Alan Thorndike (stills from Man Hunt)
1978
Sextette
as The Chairman
1976
Two-Minute Warning
as The Pickpocket
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Grayson's Butler
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
as Judge Trenchard
1975
Murder on Flight 502
as Charlie Parkins
You Lie So Deep, My Love
as Uncle Joe Padway
The Lion Roars Again
as Self
1974
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
as John Pahlman
Live Again, Die Again
as Thomas Carmichael
1973
Harry in Your Pocket
as Casey
The Neptune Factor
as Dr. Samuel Andrews
1972
Skyjacked
as Sen. Arne Lindner
The Screaming Woman
as Dr. Amos Larkin
1970
The Mask of Sheba
as Dr. Max van Condon
House on Greenapple Road
as Mayor Jack Parker
1969
Rascal
as Sterling North (voice)
1968
Funny Girl
as Florenz Ziegfeld
The Vatican Affair
as Herbert Cummings
1967
Warning Shot
as Orville Ames
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
as Lewis Gannet
1965
Cinderella
as King
1963
The Shortest Day
as Ernest Hemingway (uncredited)
Two Colonels
as Colonello Henderson
1962
Advise & Consent
as Senate Majority Leader
Big Red
as James Haggin
1961
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Admiral Harriman Nelson
1959
Meet Me in St. Louis
as Alonzo Smith
1958
Swiss Family Robinson
as Father
1956
The Rack
as Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.
These Wilder Years
as James Rayburn
Forbidden Planet
as Dr. Edward Morbius
1955
The Glass Slipper
as Narrator (voice)
Hit the Deck
as Rear Adm. Daniel Xavier Smith
1954
Deep in My Heart
as J.J. Shubert
The Last Time I Saw Paris
as James Ellswirth
Men of the Fighting Lady
as Cmdr. Dowling
Executive Suite
as Frederick Y. Alderson
1953
Dream Wife
as Walter McBride
Scandal at Scourie
as Patrick J. McChesney
1952
The Bad and the Beautiful
as Harry Pebbel
The Hoaxters
as Narrator (voice)
Million Dollar Mermaid
as Frederick Kellerman
The Sellout
as Haven D. Allridge
1951
The Unknown Man
as Dwight Bradley 'Brad' Masen
Quo Vadis
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Calling Bulldog Drummond
as Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
Soldiers Three
as Col. Brunswick
1950
The Miniver Story
as Clem Miniver
1949
That Forsyte Woman
as le jeune Jolyon Forsyte
The Red Danube
as Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar
1948
Command Decision
as Major General Roland Goodlow Kane
Julia Misbehaves
as William Sylvester Packett
1947
If Winter Comes
as Mark Sabre
1946
The Secret Heart
as Chris Matthews
Holiday in Mexico
as Jeffrey Evans
1945
Week-End at the Waldorf
as Chip Collyer
1944
Mrs. Parkington
as Major Augustus Parkington
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
1943
Madame Curie
as Pierre Curie
The Youngest Profession
as Walter Pidgeon
1942
White Cargo
as Mr. Harry Witzel
Mrs. Miniver
as Clem Miniver
1941
Design for Scandal
as Jeff Sherman
How Green Was My Valley
as Mr. Gruffydd
Blossoms in the Dust
as Sam Gladney
Man Hunt
as Captain Alan Thorndike
1940
Flight Command
as Squadron Commander Billy Gary
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
Sky Murder
as Nick Carter
Phantom Raiders
as Nick Carter
Dark Command
as William 'Will' Cantrell
It's a Date
as John Arlen
The House Across the Bay
as Tim Nolan
1939
Nick Carter, Master Detective
as Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers
Stronger Than Desire
as Tyler Flagg
6,000 Enemies
as Steve Donegan
Society Lawyer
as Christopher Durant
1938
Listen, Darling
as Richard Thurlow
Too Hot to Handle
as Bill Dennis
The Shopworn Angel
as Sam Bailey
The Girl of the Golden West
as Sheriff Jack Rance
Man-Proof
as Alan Wythe
1937
A Girl with Ideas
as Mickey McGuire
My Dear Miss Aldrich
as Ken Morley
Saratoga
as Hartley Madison
As Good as Married
as Fraser James
Girl Overboard
as Paul Stacey
She's Dangerous
as Dr. Scott Logan
1936
Fatal Lady
as David Roberts
Big Brown Eyes
as Richard Morey
1934
Good Badminton
as Walter
Journal of a Crime
as Florestan
1933
The Kiss Before the Mirror
as Lucy's Lover
1932
Rockabye
as Al Howard
1931
The Hot Heiress
as Clay
Kiss Me Again
as Paul de St. Cyr
1930
Going Wild
as 'Ace' Benton
Viennese Nights
as Franz von Renner
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
as Lord Varney
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
as Self
Bride of the Regiment
as Colonel Vultow
Show Girl in Hollywood
as Premiere Emcee
1929
A Most Immoral Lady
as Tony Williams
Her Private Life
as Ned Thayer
1928
Melody of Love
as Jack Clark
Clothes Make the Woman
as Victor Trent
Turn Back the Hours
as Philip Drake
Woman Wise
as United States Consul
The Gateway of the Moon
as Arthur Wyatt
1927
The 13th Juror
as Richard Marsden
The Gorilla
as Stevens
The Girl from Rio
as Paul Sinclair
The Heart of Salome
as Monte Carroll
1926
Marriage License?
as Paul
Miss Nobody
as Bravo
Old Loves and New
as Clyde Lord Geradine
The Outsider
as Basil Owen
Mannequin
as Martin Innesbrook